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Milk for Babies and Toddlers: A Dietitian’s Helpful Guide

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If there’s one thing I see a lot with families w

If there’s one thing I see a lot with families who struggle with mealtime battles and consistent picky eating it’s that the feeding and eating roles are all out of whack🤪

Kids are in control of what is served, when it’s served and where they’re eating and parents are trying to micromanage how much is eaten at mealtime. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone! And you can turn it around 💁‍♀️

That’s why The Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR) is a brilliant concept distinguishing between the roles of parents and children when it comes to feeding and eating. So, parents are in charge of the what’s, when’s and where’s of feeding, and kids are in charge of if and how much they eat.

See, the sDOR takes the pressure off of both parents and kids and allows kids to eat intuitively, listen to their bodies, love a variety of foods, and establish a long-term healthy relationship with food ❤️

As parents, it’s our job to nurture our children’s natural intuition and ensure that we’re providing nutritious food choices at appropriate intervals throughout the day. It’s also our job to teach our kids to be intuitive eaters, even when outside influences come into play (think friends, or shiny, colorful, sugary cereal boxes in the grocery store). We should also be facilitating a healthy eating environment, family meals whenever possible (these are SO important), setting boundaries, and modelling positive eating practices. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? 😉

Start here. Etch these feeding and eating roles in your mind and return to them when you’re struggling. Remember that it’s not your job to “get” your child to eat and that they’ll do this all on their own if you can do your jobs as the feeder and stay consistent with them 😘
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#feedingkids #pickyeating #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitianapproved #feedinglittles #familymeals #divisionofresponsibility #divisionofresponsibilityinfeeding #ellynsatter

If there’s one piece of advice I have for aspiri

If there’s one piece of advice I have for aspiring or struggling entrepreneurs/authors/business owners it’s this: Don’t give up. Seriously— just don’t 🙅‍♀️

Over the course of my career, I’ve made many many mistakes. I’ve lost money (lots), made poor decisions, felt defeated, had regrets and felt like giving up and just getting a “real job” (more times than I’d like to admit) 😑

The amount of times my parents, colleagues, and friends have had to remind me “Sarah, keep going — you’re meant to do this! You’ve worked way too hard to give up and you love what you do” is slightly shameful, but at the same time, I’m forever grateful. I AM meant to do this. But success doesn’t come without failure and loss; getting knocked down and getting back up again. Over and over and over again.

Cara and I started with a crazy little idea of writing a book together about 6 years ago in Quebec at a dietitian conference. I was pregnant with my 3rd and feeling excited, overwhelmed and terrified at the thought of heading down this path. My biggest fear? Rejection. Failure. Not being able to achieve my goal. Was I good enough? Smart enough? Qualified enough?

It took us two years, endless proposal revisions, hundreds of emails/phone calls/brainstorms, and a whole lot of drive and perseverance to land our book deal for Food to Grow On, exactly 2 years later, when we were together again in Newfoundland at the same conference 🎉

I guess my point is that you won’t meet your goals without mistakes, failures, misses and defeat along the way. Don’t give up. Brush yourself off, believe in yourself, surround yourself with inspiring mentors and colleagues, as well as a supportive tribe. Your success won’t be linear - it will be a bit of a rollercoaster getting there. But you will, and you can look back and relish in your hard work and dedication in getting there. If I can do it, so can you. I promise💜
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#dreamjob #entrepreneur #registereddietitian #keepgoing #followyourdreams #privatepractice #foodtogrowon

Our virtual launch party 🎉. Cara and I go live

Our virtual launch party 🎉. Cara and I go live to tell the story about how our book Food to Grow On came to be, we share our personal journey over the past 6 years of writing ❤️

#foodtogrowon #kidsnutrition #virtualbooklaunch #booklaunch #dietitiansofig #registereddietitian

It’s launch day!!! 🎉🥂🙌 What a wild rid

It’s launch day!!! 🎉🥂🙌

What a wild ride this last 6 years has been with my wonderful go-author @wordstoeatby and our amazing team at @appetite_randomhouse 💕

We are so excited to officially launch our book out into the world and help so many families with feeding and nutrition during these pivotal stages of growth and development. We’ve created this book to be THE ultimate guide to childhood nutrition and we leave no stone unturned (from pregnancy or school-aged nutrition) 💁‍♀️

You can now get your copy at bookstores everywhere as well as online wherever books are sold. We were thrilled to wake up this morning and find out that Food to Grow On is already a #1 bestseller in the Pregnancy nutrition and Baby Food Cooking categories!!! We’re so very proud!! ❤️❤️

Join us today to celebrate, on Instagram live at 2pm MST (we’ll be giving away a free copy too!)
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#foodtogrowon #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitianauthors #feedingkids #kidsnutrition

Tomorrow is launch day!! 🎉 🥂 @wordstoeatby a

Tomorrow is launch day!! 🎉 🥂 @wordstoeatby and I have been working very hard for many years alongside our amazing team at @appetite_randomhouse in anticipation for this day, and could not be more proud of our beautiful book 😍

Although we can’t have a traditional book launch party, we’re getting creative and going live together here on IG to celebrate the launch of Food to Grow On! 🍾

So grab a glass of Prosecco (my fave) or your beverage of choice and join us live tomorrow at 2pm MST and 4pm EST where we’ll tell you all about our book and the inside story of how it came to be. We’ll also be giving away one free copy to a lucky winner (but you must join live to enter to win!) 😉

Thank you for all of your support in this launch - we could not have done this without you!!
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#foodtogrowon #appetiterandomhouse #dietitianauthor #dietitiansofinstagram #kidsnutrition #feedingkids

Friendly Sunday reminder ❤️☝️ One of our

Friendly Sunday reminder ❤️☝️

One of our jobs as parents is to provide our kids with a positive experience with food, whether they eat it or not. A positive experience helps them to feel safe, comfortable and brings them one step closer to trying it all on their own when they’re ready 💁‍♀️

Pressuring or coaxing your child to try something or eat it before they’re ready will drive them further away from actually growing to like and accept it on their own. As parents we want to nurture our child’s long term relationship with food. The short term stuff (getting them to eat it NOW) isn’t worth it. See, that 2 more bites of broccoli will make NO difference to their overall nutrition status. But it will potentially create more picky eating issues down the road. Let’s focus on our roles (the what’s, where’s, when’s, and keeping things positive), and let our kids to the rest 💕
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#divisionofresponsibilityinfeeding #mealtime #familymeals #feedingkids #dietitiansofig #pickyeating #pickyeatingtips #pickyeatinghelp

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